Wednesday, December 21, 2005

What's Up With Them?

What's up with whales stranding themselves on beaches? Are the Japanese right? Is it really their destiny to be sashimi? This morning 123 pilot whales managed to strand themselves on a beach in the South Island of New Zealand. People have been working all day to get them back out to sea and they finally suceeded. However watching the news just now I see that 50 of the foolish beasts have gone and stranded themselves again.

I have heard a number of theories about why they do it. One is that modern sonar / satellite communication is messing with their own sonar meaning they can become confused. Still, they have eyes don't they? There is some weird cult thing going on here. The cult of whale suicide. We need to organise an intervention... Are you with me?

I am all for technology but it is so sad that we are killing such animals. I dont know about elsewhere but in many parts of Karnataka, sparrows are disappearing because of the radiation from mobile phones. I am happy to say that even though all of us in my family have mobiles, my mother feeds around 150 sparrows every day.

I think the commonly accepted reason is that it's Americas fault (just like everything else right?) -- and this time it's even believable. Apparently there are American Navy thingies in the area that use sonar and since they started it, the beached whale problems has gotten greater.But yea, so much for evolution huh? Shouldn't the whales evolve and develop maps so they know that there is this wasteland called New Zealand blocking their way to Australia where they really want to go? It's like Columbus trying to go to India but runs into that wasteland America. hehehe.

i know! living harmoniously is the way to go! u ought to see my home. we live in the middle of the town but it is a compound of abt 10acres with an estate and lots of trees, kind of like a village in a town. and we have our own bird sanctuary and a zoo, the kind of birds n animals we get! wow!